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conulyI just love the etymology.
If I had to pick a second favorite word - and one that's not rock-related, as three of my faves definitely are (chossy, scree, and riprap) - it'd have to be lagniappe, also because of the etymology. So much language-hopping before it arrives in English!
(Given my love for etymology, you'd think I'd like the word silly more. And I do - but it's only in the top hundred or so, not the top ten or twenty. Here, take a poem and some discussion.)
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If I had to pick a second favorite word - and one that's not rock-related, as three of my faves definitely are (chossy, scree, and riprap) - it'd have to be lagniappe, also because of the etymology. So much language-hopping before it arrives in English!
(Given my love for etymology, you'd think I'd like the word silly more. And I do - but it's only in the top hundred or so, not the top ten or twenty. Here, take a poem and some discussion.)
Prickly business: the hedgehog highway that knits a village together (Lots of photos!)
Ancient Maya built sophisticated water filters
There’s Drama in the Queer Penguin Community
This is an experiment about how we view history. (Fun and fairly fast)
Revisiting Nickellennium, The Millennial Time Capsule of a Brighter World That Never Came
‘We’re like athletes’: the secret lives of giant-vegetable growers (Interesting tidbit about the journalist's last name)
Just give poor people money
Everywhere basic income has been tried, in one map
Doctors Detail Unexpected Recoveries from Long-Term Coma After Cardiac Arrest
Studies Point To Big Drop In COVID-19 Death Rates
What A Summer Of COVID-19 Taught Scientists About Indoor vs. Outdoor Transmission
Found: A Shipwrecked Nazi Steamer, Still Filled With Cargo (Of course they suggest it might have the Amber Room hidden somewhere within, but spoiler alert, it probably won't.)
How Ted Bundy’s Killing Spree Launched a Legion of Feminist Karate Masters
Armenia and Azerbaijan: The Conflict Explained
The US just topped 1,100 coronavirus deaths a day. One state is getting National Guard help, and Puerto Rico's 911 centers are shut down.
‘Something Extremely Bad Is Happening Here’ (Content note: Teen suicide)
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Date: 2020-10-23 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-23 10:49 pm (UTC)that poem is fascinating
—wait, his accompanying text is from 1995. the twenty-five years of semantic change he's postulating with examples? that's now. he got about one in three right?
the viewing history thing, I figured out what they were up to at the start and I still fell for it, augh
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Date: 2020-10-24 01:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-24 12:21 pm (UTC)no subject
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